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bettybarr
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I took the faceplate off this very nice BC Milam No.3 yesterday and the support plate for the click and drag had 2 cracks. I wonder how that happened. It just shows that you never know what you will find.
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Eek!!
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Still looks good on the outside :)
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That's a new one on me. :shock:
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The cracks are so straight and parallel that the circlular piece might have been made from three pieces . It would take a lot of constant pressure to get this result . I wonder if the circular piece was too thin for the strength it required.
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We can't figure it out either. It is probably one very thin plate that got too much pressure from being compressed. The outside shows no evidence of being dropped.
What I have found is that the best way to examine any part of a reel is to take a high resolution image and then enlarge it. I always see things I would have missed otherwise.
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bettybarr wrote:.....What I have found is that the best way to examine any part of a reel is to take a high resolution image and then enlarge it. I always see things I would have missed otherwise.
Great idea and a good cellphone works great on the fly for this.
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